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"New Evidence for a Positive Relationship Between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights." ###########################################################################################################################
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This README file describes the replication archive for "New Evidence for a Positive Relationship Between De Facto Judicial Independence and State Respect for Empowerment Rights." The replication archive comprises three files that we describe below.

1. new_evidence.dat - This is the primary data file used in our analysis. It contains the variables used in reported analyses as well as variables used in additional reported and unreported robustness checks. The file is in Stata 13 format. Please see the paper for a description of the variables used in our analysis.
2. new_evidence_code.r - This file contains the code we used to generate the plots and tabular results in the paper and supplementary appendix. The file was created in R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03). Please note that the file contains instructions on how to obtain, load, and merge two other datasets used in our analyses.
3. new_evidence_readme.txt - This is the README file.